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Originally Posted by jebartle
Since Atlanta mass shootings, US has had 45 mass shootings. What will it take to change this trend? Surely to goodness, there is an answer to this problem.
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We are much too fractured at present to agree on an answer.
We cannot agree whether we should wear masks during a pandemic that took half a million Americans to their death so not optimistic.
Proposed in Teaxas is a return to the Wild West.....
Texas House approves open carry without a permit for handgun owners - CBS News
Of course, mental health is an issue, however, I subscribe to this from an article a few years back...
So many people have said that mental illness is related to mass shootings from disparate political beliefs, for so many decades, and so many different times that it’s easy to just accept the premise without questioning it. This is “illusory truth.”
However: there is no factual link between mental illness and violence against others. In fact, people with mental health disorders are more likely to be victims of a violent crime (up to 10 times more likely than the general population) than the perpetrators. A 2011 meta analysis found that to prevent one homicide of a person unknown to the perpetrator, 35,000 patients with schizophrenia judged to be at high risk of violence would need to be detained. Similarly, few U.S. mass shootings have been committed by people who were “mentally ill;” there is a much stronger correlation with other issues, like domestic violence. Finally, people with mental illness are much more likely to hurt themselves than others. Two-thirds of gun deaths in this country are suicides, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Dangers of Linking Gun Violence and Mental Illness | Time
Question for gun owners, who always seem to think there is some conspiracy to
get them, what does a gun owner need an automatic weapon that kills so many, so quickly.....?